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monarchy even before our friends across the Channel
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The Royal Family
monarchy
even before our friends across the Channel , the French, even before they did. [00:04:34] There was a brief period called the Commonwealth of England, which started after King Charles the First was executed in 1649, but it only lasted 11 years when the monarchy was restored. [00:04:52] So the brief flirtation with republicanism only lasted 11 years and England and then Great Britain has had a king or queen ever since. [00:05:08] And today's monarch is, as you will know, Queen Elizabeth. [00:05:14] She has been queen since 1952, 58 years ago, making her one of the longest serving monarchs in British history. [00:05:24] She only needs to keep going for another five years, and she will beat Queen Victoria who reigned for a massive 65 years. [00:05:36] But something you might not know is that Queen Elizabeth was never meant to be queen. [00:05:43] She was never directly in line to the throne . [00:05:48] Her uncle Edward the Eighth, her father's oldest brother, he was destined to be King, but after he couldn't marry the woman he wanted to marry, he abdicated , he gave away the throne and it passed to his younger brother George the Sixth, Queen Elizabeth's father. [00:06:11] And when he died, the throne went to Elizabeth. [00:06:17] So this queen was never meant to be queen, but she has done the job for 58 years, much longer than most people do any normal job. [00:06:30] And I do use the term 'job' here because even though some people might think that being queen just means sitting around all day drinking tea and not doing very much at all, the queen does actually have quite lot to do, as do the members of her family, The Royal Family. [00:06:54] The Royal Family have between them about 2000 engagements that they carry out every year. [00:07:04] These engagements might be opening hospitals, schools, sporting events, meeting world leaders, charity work, of course, typically ceremonial things, but they do do a large amount of it. [00:07:23] The queen who recently celebrated her 94th birthday had 292 engagements in 2019 - that's almost six a week. [00:07:36] That's a lot of meeting and greeting, a lot of small talk and shaking hands and certainly a lot of work for someone who, if they were doing a normal job, would probably have retired 30 years ago. [00:07:53] And she isn't even the hardest working Royal in terms of duties . [00:07:58] Her son, Prince Charles, did 550 official engagements in 2019 and her daughter, Anne, did just under 500. [00:08:12] And they also are, as we say, Download 49.95 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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